How much has this case affected you?
I think about it every day.
I believe she met a monster that morning.
She was by herself in a remote part of the parking lot.
Next thing you know, the guy's at her door
with a handgun.
I saw the suspect making his way into my sister's car
and driving her car away.
My heart sank immediately.
[Erik] I felt like every second Naomi was slipping away from us.
Time was of the essence.
[Casey] We had public searches.
The whole community was there.
It means so much.
Our family could not go through this without them.
I never let myself doubt that she wasn't still with us.
They got a break in the case when her car was found.
[officer 1] I saw it sitting there,
so I came back around and then...
In my opinion, the suspect put it out there
for law enforcement to find it.
I think it was just part of his sick game.
What was your greatest fear as you approached her car?
That her body would be in there.
It's like...
standing on the edge of the abyss.
[suspenseful music]
Hi, I'm Paula Zahn,
and tonight we're "On The Case" in Fernley, Nevada.
The peaceful suburb about 40-miles east of Reno
seemed an unlikely setting for a terrifying crime
until 18-year-old Naomi Irion mysteriously vanished.
As police began their investigation,
a disturbing picture slowly came into focus
with each frame of video evidence they discovered.
Every clue revealed another part of a cold and calculated plot,
one detectives feared would end with Naomi dead
and her family heartbroken.
[suspenseful music]
March 13th, 2022.
It was early on a chilly Sunday morning,
and Casey Valley was filled with a nervous tension.
He couldn't locate his sister, Naomi,
who had failed to return home after work.
[suspenseful music intensifies and ends]
When was the last time you saw your sister?
[Casey] It was a Friday night.
I told her that the dome light was on in her car,
to which she gave me a very characteristic
teenager eye roll,
and we both went to bed after that.
[Paula] Naomi had been living with her older brother
for less than a year
while her parents were overseas on a diplomatic mission
for the U.S. State Department.
Naomi had her own car and a good job
at the Panasonic plant in Sparks, Nevada.
Was she supposed to work the next day?
Yes.
[soft music]
[Paula] The diligent 18-year-old
left for her shift before five every morning.
When did you expect to see her the next time?
I expected to see her Saturday night,
but sometimes she didn't come straight home.
So when I went to bed at eight o'clock and she wasn't
home yet, it wasn't that strange.
But I fully expected to see her the next day.
When did you realize she was actually missing?
On that Sunday,
I texted her a couple times.
I didn't hear from her,
I started getting really worried.
[Paula] Casey tried to be patient, but within a few hours,
he shared the unsettling news with his parents.
I called my mom. She hadn't heard from her...
since Friday night. That was odd.
We started reaching out to friends
that also hadn't heard from her.
That point we knew that there was a problem
and I called the police department.
[eerie music]
[Paula] But the officer Casey spoke with wasn't ready
to launch an official missing persons investigation.
Did he say why?
He said that there wasn't enough to go on.
He said that she's an adult
she's allowed to not answer her phone.
Were you angry?
I was very upset,
and he refused to take my report,
didn't send out a be-on-the-lookout, or anything.
[suspenseful music]
[Paula] Casey turned his frustration into action.
He began retracing his sister's last known movements
on his own, starting with a call to the Panasonic plant.
Did she ever show up for work on Saturday?
No, she did not.
Had she ever missed a day of work before?
No, never.
[suspenseful music]
We didn't know what was going on.
This is not like her.
[suspenseful music builds]
[Paula] As Casey's concern grew,
he considered other possibilities.
Could something have happened to Naomi
on the way to the plant?
He called hospitals and even the local jail.
Then he raced to the Walmart parking lot,
where his sister caught the shuttle bus
to work every morning.
What was your plan when you headed to Walmart?
The plan was to find the security people
and asked them to help us look for her car.
[Paula] Naomi's car wasn't in the lot,
and the desperation in his voice
convinced the reluctant security team
to let him review surveillance video.
They focused on the time frame between 4:40 and 5 AM
when Naomi would have gotten there.
Took us close to an hour to find the right footage.
We eventually did find it.
[eerie music]
[Paula] Casey watched in silence as Naomi's car pulled into
and parked in the dimly-lit lot.
My sister was driving a '91 Mercury Sable,
which has a very long headlight
across the entire front of the car.
Pretty easy to pick out in a grainy surveillance video.
[Paula] What the cameras captured next
will remain etched in his memory forever.
What did you actually see?
That's when I saw the first video clip of the suspect.
My heart sank immediately.
[Paula] To most observers, the way the man walked across
the lot may have looked fairly innocent.
But Casey was certain
that something terrible was happening.
He did a circle around the car,
and then he circled back to the car.
Was it possible that it was someone she knew?
No, it looked like he brandished something.
[Paula] Casey then watched in horror as the unknown man
entered his sister's car
and drove out of the parking lot
with Naomi trapped inside.
It was hard to breathe.
That's when I knew that she was really taken.
[suspenseful music]
I called 911 and told them that I had evidence of a kidnapping.
[Paula] Detective Erik Kusmerz was assigned to the case.
He was alarmed by the evidence Casey had uncovered.
After you talked with Casey, was there any doubt
in your mind that Naomi had been kidnapped?
The minute I got off the phone with Casey,
I believed she had been kidnapped.
I sent out a text to all the other detectives,
and I was like, "This is real."
What was their reaction?
They immediately went to work, headed up to Fernley,
started gathering video surveillance,
and starting the investigation.
[Paula] Detective Kusmerz raced to the Walmart
and viewed every angle of the video himself.
He also spoke with several potential witnesses.
Give me a sense of how many people took the shuttle to work
from that parking lot.
There's approximately 20 to 30 people that ride the shuttles,
[Paula] But none of Naomi's co-workers
had seen nor heard anything.
Did you find that odd, that they wouldn't have noticed
anything unusual happening? -[Erik] No.
Most of the employees were likely on their cell phones,
not paying attention to their surroundings.
[Paula] And even if someone had looked up from their phone,
there was nothing on the video that indicated that Naomi
had struggled with her abductor.
So there were no signs of resistance?
That's correct.
[suspenseful music]
[Paula] It was clear to Lieutenant Ty Joyner
that even Naomi hadn't realized what was happening
until it was too late.
Did her abductor look like someone who didn't seem to be
living in fear that he was gonna get caught?
Yes, he looked comfortable in the parking lot.
He looked like he had a plan and was executing it.
What happened as he approached the car?
He basically goes directly to her car.
He nonchalantly opened the door.
We assume that she's likely in the dark,
looking at her cellphone,
and next thing you know, the guy's at her door
with a handgun.
[Paula] Naomi's abductor then slid behind the wheel
and calmly drove her car out of the parking lot.
Vehicle leaves with no headlights on.
It was very clear that something happened.
How long after Naomi was abducted did the bus show up?
Less than a minute.
What did you make of that timing?
It definitely appeared to be a planned out kidnapping.
[ominous music]
[Paula] Everyone on the case was now certain
that Naomi Irion was in imminent danger.
And they were almost 48 hours behind her abductor.
How acutely did you feel the race against time?
[Erik] Extremely.
I felt like every second, Naomi was slipping away from us.
Time was of the essence.
[sirens wailing]
[Paula] Police in Fernley, Nevada were desperate for a lead
that might help them find Naomi Irion
before it was too late.
For her loved ones, it was a dark time
filled with desperation.
[suspenseful music]
What did you do to search for her?
Anybody that she'd even mentioned to me in passing,
I tracked them down.
I talked to everybody that she'd ever
really had contact with.
[Paula] Talking with everyone Naomi knew was not as big of a job
as it might have been with a typical teenager.
Naomi had a much smaller social circle
after spending years abroad with her parents.
[Casey] They moved to Moscow while she was in middle school,
and then they were in Germany for a couple of years.
She finished out her high school in South Africa.
What was it that had your family
moving around so frequently?
My stepdad working for the State Department as a diplomat.
[Paula] Naomi enjoyed the globetrotting.
She was exposed to new music, art, and culture,
but in her heart, the teenager longed to be back home.
When did the two of you develop a plan
for her to move in with you?
We started talking about it about a year before
she graduated high school.
Naomi was all on board,
really excited to come to the States and get job,
get car, and work her way through community college.
[Paula] But now, Casey feared
that all of Naomi's future plans were in jeopardy.
[Paula] As police search the area for the teenager
and her missing car,
they hope that cellphone records might provide a lead.
Were you able to track Naomi's cellphone activity?
Yes, we were able to see her cellphone leave
her residence and go to the Walmart parking lot.
And then we were able to see it leave the parking lot
and travel to the west side of Fernley
before it completely stopped communicating
with the cellphone towers.
What did you think that meant?
The phone was damaged or destroyed.
We had no way of tracking where she was at.
[Paula] Still, investigators pursued the only clue they had.
We went to the location where her cellphone was last active,
and there was approximately 50 cops
from all over Northern Nevada
that came and searched that area.
Did you find any clues?
Nothing that ended up being relevant to this case.
[ominous music]
[Paula] Police had barely finished that grid search
when a Fernley patrol officer called in a shocking report.
He had located Naomi's car parked in an empty dirt lot.
[police] It's like, just driving all over looking for it.
And, as I was getting off here,
I saw it sitting there.
[Paula] Lieutenant Ty Joyner raced to the scene.
How far away was that from the Walmart parking lot?
About three quarters of a mile from the Walmart parking lot.
[ominous music]
[Paula] Detectives and CSI teams
from around the state responded to the lightly traveled roadway.
[officer #1] I just parked here and I walked over
and then walked away. -[officer #2] All right.
[camera clicking]
[Paula] Rumors of the police activity
led Naomi's brother to head there too.
What was your greatest fear as you approached her car?
That her body would be in there.
It's like...
standing on the edge of the abyss.
[Paula] There was no sign of Naomi in the front or back seat.
Then came the moment of truth.
They finally opened the trunk of the car.
What did they tell you?
[suspenseful music]
That uh...
she's not there.
[Paula] For a few moments, Casey was incredibly relieved.
But finding Naomi's car without a clue as to her whereabouts
forced him to consider
how the search for his sister might end.
Was it hard to hold on to hope...
that she was still alive?
I never let myself doubt that she wasn't still with us.
[Paula] Although detectives knew that Naomi's car being returned
without her was a bad sign,
they also believed it was still possible she was alive.
Was there any evidence of a struggle inside the car?
No, not that we found.
[suspenseful music]
[Paula] Investigators scoured the area
for a clue that might lead them to Naomi
or the suspect who had kidnapped her.
Were you able to find any surveillance video around
the area where the car was found?
Yes, we were able to capture
her vehicle being parked on video surveillance.
[eerie music]
Could you make out who had been driving the car?
[Erik] No, the video surveillance shows
Naomi's vehicle being parked off a dirt road,
out of sight of video surveillance.
[Paula] The timestamp on the video
added another chilling detail.
What time was the car left there?
It was around 4:30-5 o'clock the same afternoon
after she was abducted.
[Paula] Just 12 hours after abducting Naomi,
her kidnapper had brazenly abandoned
her car less than a mile from the Walmart
where he had kidnapped her.
Why do you think her abductor chose that spot?
In my opinion, he put it out there
for law enforcement to find it.
-Why? -I think it was just part of his sick game.
[suspenseful music]
[Paula] As police study the troubling clues
in Naomi Irion's disappearance,
it seemed that her abductor might be engaging them
in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
What kind of perpetrator did you think you were now looking for?
Somebody who definitely knew what they were doing.
He was very calculated in his plan.
Someone who perhaps had done this before?
Very possible.
[ominous music]
[Paula] Detectives had no leads on a suspect
until Naomi's brother mentioned a new detail.
The night before the kidnapping,
the teenager had gone out on a first date
with a man she had met online.
What did she tell you about how it went?
They had an OK time,
and...she wasn't sure if she was gonna see him again or not,
but she wasn't against it.
I did give whatever info I had about that guy
to law enforcement.
[action music]
[Paula] Police jumped on the lead.
They met on a social media dating website.
We found him and started looking into his whereabouts
during her kidnapping.
He was definitely a person of interest.
Where did they go for that date?
She drove from Fernley to Reno and met with him.
They went shopping at a clothing store
and had some food.
[Paula] Investigators were intrigued.
The young man had likely seen Naomi's car,
and she could have told him where and when
she took the shuttle to work.
[ominous music]
When they brought him in for questioning,
they pressed him for information.
What was his demeanor
when he was asked about her disappearance?
He seemed very concerned.
Did he have any contact with her after they left each other?
He said he did not.
[Paula] Police were skeptical
until they confirmed that Naomi's date
could not have been at the Walmart parking lot
the next morning.
He was in Reno, Nevada, during her kidnapping.
He had a strong alibi.
He was not involved in Naomi's abduction.
[Paula] After quickly eliminating that potential suspect,
forensic analysis of the Walmart video
provided investigators with some physical characteristics
of the man who had kidnapped Naomi.
[Erik] From the video surveillance,
we were able to do a triangulation,
and based off that, we believed he was 6'2''.
[Paula] Investigators also shuttled
through hours of footage
from other businesses that might have captured
Naomi's abductor abandoning her car.
And their hard work led to the next break in the case.
[Lt. Ty] Upon reviewing video surveillance,
we observed that there was a truck that parked nearby.
A male subject exited the truck,
disappeared out of the camera view.
A short time later,
her car is seen driving back into the camera view.
[Paula] Investigators were stunned.
When you compared that image to the image
at the Walmart parking lot,
was there any doubt in your mind
you were looking at the same man?
It was hard to say from that distance,
but there's a solo person
that entered her vehicle in the Walmart parking lot.
Now, there's a solo male subject where her vehicle was parked.
[Paula] Although police still couldn't identify the driver,
the clear images of the pickup truck he was driving
were now the best lead they had.
That piece of video was where we really got our starting point
to start looking for something real.
That subject was somehow involved in her disappearance.
[Paula] While forensic experts worked on enhancing the video,
detectives tried to make sense
of the suspect's puzzling actions.
It appeared he had initially abandoned Naomi's car outside
of camera range and then returned to move it.
How far away were the two spots?
Probably 100 yards.
[Paula] The inexplicable decision left police
with another tormenting question.
Why do you think he went back to her car?
All of law enforcement was speculating that he left
evidence in the vehicle,
forgot something,
wanted to wipe it down for prints one more time.
In my opinion, I think he made a mistake.
[Paula] Just over a week after Naomi Irion's disappearance,
police were still analyzing a massive amount of video
they hoped would lead them to her abductor.
Meanwhile, the Fernley community was rallying
around the teenager's family.
Did you feel the support of the community?
Absolutely. It was fantastic.
When we had public searches, the whole community was there.
When we had our vigil,
there was thousands of people there.
[Paula] Naomi's heartbroken parents,
who had flown back from South Africa,
were overwhelmed by the outpouring of goodwill.
The love of the community has been, it means so much,
so much.
I know our family could not go through this without them.
[Paula] Naomi's loved ones pleaded
with the public to come forward with any information they had.
They knew that it might be the smallest of clues
that ultimately solved the case.
It's like putting together a puzzle.
Every piece is important.
[Paula] Police agreed.
And as they connected the pieces of video
from different surveillance cameras in the area,
they were inching closer to identifying the man
who had abducted Naomi.
Perhaps the most important images were the ones
of the blue truck the suspect had fled in
after abandoning Naomi's car.
What did you learn by looking at that portion of the videotape?
We took still shots
that showed the truck drive past the business.
The local Chevrolet dealerships were able to identify
what make and model the truck was.
It was a 2500 or 3500 Chevy.
Is that a popular truck in the area?
It is a popular truck in the area.
The Department of Motor Vehicles sent us a list of all
2020 to 2022 Chevrolet 2500 to 3500 trucks.
[Paula] The DMV records didn't note color,
so the total number of trucks was staggering.
You're basically getting every Chevy truck registered
in the state of Nevada.
How daunting of a task was it to narrow down that list?
It was gonna be very difficult.
We planned on looking at every single truck on that list
until we found the right one.
[Paula] Investigators went to work,
trying to zero in on their target.
They carefully studied the photograph
and cataloged all of the details that could be used
to identify that particular truck.
There were several features, such as chrome door handles,
chrome running boards, color-matched bumpers.
It had roof-mounted marker lights.
[Erik] It had a sunroof, rear sliding window,
the emblem of the Chevy bowtie on the front of the truck.
[suspenseful music]
[Paula] Police were able to eliminate hundreds of trucks
based on their color alone, using insurance information
and license plate reader cameras.
But even after that huge effort,
there were still dozens of trucks left to check.
What did you think the chances were
that they'd actually be able to find out who owned the truck
on the surveillance tape?
Just going through that list,
I thought it was a slim chance that they would find the truck.
[Paula] The work was time consuming
and required an officer to do an in-person review of each truck.
Investigators were out driving and trying to find the vehicles.
It just took a lot of groundwork.
[Paula] Slowly, a pattern began to emerge.
Looking at these trucks for several days,
which normally costs between $60,000 and $80,000,
we noticed that the residents these trucks were parked
at were nicer homes,
nicer neighborhoods.
[Paula] All of the addresses fit that description,
except for one.
The address just did not match the rest of the residences
we had been looking at.
The property was run down.
[Paula] And most importantly,
there was no Chevy pickup parked out front.
Lieutenant Joyner could have just moved on
to the next truck on his list,
but his instincts told him to do a deeper dive.
That's when I started trying to research
the registered owner, Troy Edward Driver.
[Paula] When Lieutenant Joyner received
Troy Driver's DMV records, his hunch became a lead.
His driver's license said he was 6'2'' inches tall.
[Paula] That made Troy Driver a physical match
to the triangulation done of the suspect
in the Walmart parking lot.
Lieutenant Joyner immediately contacted
District Attorney Steve Rye for more information.
What did you learn about Troy Driver?
Yeah, I learned that he had spent
a significant time in prison
for some violent crimes,
that he had gotten out of prison and moved to Nevada,
and that he had gotten a job in construction
and had moved up to a management position.
[Paula] Those details convinced Lieutenant Joyner.
The investigation was on the right track.
They told me that he was a registered ex-felon.
[ominous music]
His criminal history was extensive.
That 100% piqued my interest.
We decided we needed to find that truck immediately.
[Paula] Drivers' insurance records
provided the updated answer.
Where was the truck at that time?
The truck was located in Fallon, Nevada.
I contacted some Churchill County detectives,
which is the neighboring county.
They were able to drive by the address,
get some long range surveillance photos.
[camera clicking]
And we were able to look at that truck.
[Paula] As police studied the photos, they were stunned.
The truck they were looking at had all of the different
dealer add-ons they had identified
in the surveillance stills.
His truck matched everything
that we were looking for on the suspect truck.
Where did the investigation go from there?
That was enough to start applying for search warrants.
[suspenseful music]
The investigation was heating up,
and the FBI provided detectives
with more fuel for their suspicions.
They had found video of that same truck being parked
near the Walmart just before Naomi was abducted.
When Naomi was kidnapped,
we didn't know where he had parked his truck.
The FBI reviewed hours and hours of footage
and ultimately located the truck being parked
the morning of March 12th.
[Paula] Identifying where the suspect had left his truck
prior to the abduction,
allowed investigators to create a map of the likely route
the abductor had traveled.
They searched for cameras
between that area and the Walmart,
as well as the dirt lot where he had abandoned Naomi's car.
We now can try to narrow down the focus of video surveillance
to try to see him going to the truck or to the car.
[Paula] The building blocks of the case against Troy Driver
seemed to have fallen into place.
Did you have enough to arrest him at that point?
Not at that point.
Our district attorney's office wanted
just one more piece of evidence.
What did you think that could be?
We couldn't say for certain, so we pushed the panic button,
trying everything with search warrants
and video surveillance footage.
[Paula] But none of them realized
that the clue that might bring Troy Driver to justice
was hidden in plain sight.
[Paula] Police had zeroed in on a suspect
in the Naomi Irion abduction case.
His name was Troy Driver.
Investigators believe they had linked
the 41-year-old's blue Chevy truck
to the kidnapping through surveillance video.
But police still didn't have enough to make an arrest.
You never know if it's the owner driving the truck.
The video is too far away.
[Paula] Detectives hope the GPS data from either
Driver's work or personal phone would provide
the smoking gun that placed him at the crime scene.
Was there any cellphone activity on his phone
before Naomi was kidnapped?
No, Troy driver's cellphones
were actively connected to towers,
but they were at his residence in Fallon, Nevada.
The day that Naomi was kidnapped,
there was zero activity on either phone.
What do you think that actually meant?
That his phones were specifically left at home,
so he couldn't be tracked.
[Paula] Investigators were frustrated.
They could only hope
that the elusive piece of evidence they needed
had been captured on video somewhere
near one of their two crime scenes --
the Walmart where Naomi was abducted
or the dirt lot where her car was found.
-Did additional surveillance video ever surface? -Yes.
On the afternoon Naomi was kidnapped,
Troy Driver returned to the area in her car
and walked from her car directly to his truck.
He made a huge mistake
and he walked past a camera mounted on a pole at a bank.
[Paula] The bank's video showed Troy Driver with his hood down.
[Erik] It was super clear video surveillance,
and you could clearly see the face.
What was your reaction?
It was definitely a "gotcha" moment.
[Paula] The video placed Troy Driver at the crime scene
minutes after Naomi's car was abandoned.
It was the final piece of the puzzle.
Describe to me how his arrest unfolded.
He was at work in Reno, Nevada.
As he exited work for the day,
law enforcement jumped out and took him into custody.
-[officer #3] Troy Driver? -[Troy] Yes.
-[handcuffs click] -[officer #3] Don't move.
[Paula] Police hoped that Driver would confess
when he was confronted with the case police had compiled.
[officer #3] So, we have our suspect in custody.
[Paula] Once he was in custody,
did he reveal anything about Naomi's abduction?
No, he lawyered up.
How frustrated was law enforcement
when he decided to lawyer up
without giving you any information about her abduction?
Very frustrating.
I was hoping he'd lead us to where we could find Naomi.
[Paula] Investigators went back to work,
determined to find answers to all of the remaining questions,
no matter how painful they might be.
And conversations with Troy Driver's girlfriend
moved them one step closer to their goal.
You spoke with Driver's girlfriend after his arrest.
What did she tell you that alarmed you?
Driver had told her that he was going camping that weekend,
and he left the night before Naomi was kidnapped.
When he got home, he was not acting normal.
She started piecing everything together.
I think she came to the realization that he had done it.
[soft suspenseful music]
[Paula] Headlines about Driver's arrest
also raised the suspicions
of one of Driver's co-workers.
He said he had delivered an excavator to Driver
at an abandoned job site
in the weeks leading up to Naomi's abduction.
Detectives discovered that Driver often worked alone
in the remote location.
Based on that information,
a sergeant from the Pershing County Sheriff's Office
drove our there, looked around,
and found a spot that looked abnormal --
a patch of fresh dirt.
[Paula] One look at that disturbed ground
left Lieutenant Joyner convinced it was time to begin
the grimmest job in law enforcement.
[Lt. Ty] We started marking the area,
and we started to dig into that dirt
to see if there was something in there.
How long did the process take?
20 to 30 minutes before we started getting
an odor of decomposition.
We had called for forensic technicians to come in,
and they're out there for probably 15, 20 hours
when we actually saw a flash of skin in the dirt.
[Paula] A closer look revealed that the victim was Naomi Irion.
What condition was her body in?
Her body was well preserved.
It was still cold outside,
and she was buried several feet in the ground.
[Paula] Naomi was naked,
and the cause of her death was clear.
Medical examiner determined that Naomi had been shot twice,
once in the back of the head,
one more time through the chest.
Was the murder weapon ever found?
No, the murder weapon was not found.
[Paula] For her loved ones, the discovery of Naomi's body
extinguished their last glimmer of hope.
How did you all confront this terrible,
tragic news?
I was trying to comfort my mother.
She passed out. Everybody cried.
It was horrible.
I was very upset.
I was beside myself.
[Paula] But within all the anger and heartbreak,
there was a small sense of relief as well.
Naomi was home.
And the evidence police found left little doubt
that Troy Driver would face justice for her murder.
During the autopsy, a sexual assault exam
was conducted on Naomi,
and DNA swabs were collected.
Those DNA swabs showed positive for Troy Driver's DNA.
[Paula] The investigation had exposed
Driver's entire sadistic plot.
[Lt. Ty] Troy Driver waited in the dark.
He saw a single young female pull in by herself
and park in a remote part of the parking lot.
He was able to stalk up to her car without being seen by her.
He opened her car door, brandished a weapon,
and got into the driver's seat.
He drove out of the parking lot,
and then he drove her out to his pre-designated location
to sexually assault and murder her.
It was absolutely horrific.
Nobody should ever have to go through that.
And you saw it all play out, with the exception
of the murder, on tape.
Yeah, seeing her leave
that Walmart parking lot was very tragic.
How would you characterize someone
who can come up with a sadistic plan like that?
Psychopath, I can't think of any other way
to characterize it.
She met a monster that morning.
[Paula] But before the mountain of evidence that documented
his crime could be presented to a jury,
Troy Driver committed suicide in his jail cell
while awaiting trial.
How disappointed were you when you found out
that Driver had managed to kill himself?
I was disappointed the family
wouldn't get to see him get convicted in court.
Do you have any doubt that Driver would have been
convicted had he not committed suicide?
I have no doubt at all.
[Paula] Naomi's family agrees,
and they even found a shred of solace
in Driver's final act of cowardice.
He's never gonna hurt anybody again, and that's good.
It was hard to think of him as human.
He was just an animal.
[Paula] Today, Naomi's loved ones remain committed to finding
a way to move forward,
while never forgetting what they have lost.
How has this tragedy forever changed your family?
I mean,
there's always someone missing.
There's definitely a big hole there.
Her room is still intact.
Sometimes I just sit in there and think about her.
And...we think about her a lot.
It's brutal.
Naomi's family is grateful for the amazing work
of law enforcement and the community,
whose outpouring of love they feel to this day.
I'm Paula Zahn.
Please join us again next time when we're back "On The Case."
[Paula] On an all-new season of On the Case...
She was in a remote part of the parking lot,
next thing you know the guys is at her door with a handgun.
I believe she met a monster that morning.
I said, "I honestly don't believe this girl
is coming home alive."
Can you even imagine him walking in to that nightmare?
It was horrifying and it made me feel sick.
I ran through the house screaming
"No, no, no, no, no! It can't be true."
\{Paula] Where the victim's voice is never silenced.
I believe any case can be solved.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
We hit some dead ends, but we were not going to give up.
[caller on the phone] All I see is blood on the ground. Please hurry!
She's stabbed and set on fire.
Who could do something like this to a young mother?
[Paula] What did you realistically think
were the chances of solving this case?
I knew we'd find something.
If it is you. I'm coming.